Taking fluvoxamine or other SSRIs for a few days to treat an acute condition is highly unlikely to cause serious negative side effects. The real problems with SSRIs only appear after weeks of chronic use.

Anecdotally I've heard several physicians report good results with fluvoxamine. It appears to be well tolerated for most patients.

A Covid treatment with happiness as a side effect? Sign me up! ;)

Is there a problem with taking SSRI's for 10 days though?

It's a misunderstanding SSRIs "make you happy".

They are powerful manipulators of brain (and body) chemistry.

And yes, you are right to suspect taking SSRI for 10 days is a problem, most SSRI have serious withdrawal symptoms too and interact with common things like caffeine very badly.

But that pfizer pill is months away from significant quantities which is way too late for omicron and nothing else works on it (like MABs) so doctors have a big problem with no tools in the toolbox.

Ok, I don't know that much about SSRI's but I have a hard time believing that withdrawal symptoms (after 10 days of use) would be worse than a Covid case warranting treatment (= a serious one).

MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?

> MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?

To answer my own question, no:

> But a slew of publications posted on preprint servers report laboratory evidence that Omicron is totally or partially resistant to all currently available treatments based on these monoclonal antibodies.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03829-0